![[movies]](/images/mediatype_movies.gif) | THEMIS Beauty Pass - NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Conceptual Image Lab
Note: A closer look at one of the THEMIS spacecraft. Animator: Walt Feimer (HTSI). Scientist: Vassilis Angelopoulos (University of California, Berkeley). Platforms/Sensors/Data Sets: THEMIS.
Keywords: THEMIS; What -- THEMIS; Where -- California
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| THEMIS Sees Magnetic Reconnection - NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Conceptual Image Lab
THEMIS observations confirm for the first time that magnetic reconnection in the magnetotail triggers the onset of substorms. Substorms are the sudden violent eruptions of space weather that release solar energy trapped in the Earth's magnetic field. Note: THEMIS reconnection animation Animator: Walt Feimer (HTSI). Scientist: Vassilis Angelopoulos (University of California, Berkeley). Platforms/Sensors/Data Sets: THEMIS.
Keywords: Aurora, HDTV, Magnetic Reconnection, THEMIS; What -- THEMIS; Where -- California
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| Substorms - NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center- Conceptual Image Lab
This animation shows a magnetospheric substorm, during which the reconnection causes energy to be rapidly released along the field lines causing the auroras to brighten. Note: Earth's magnetic field lines including plasma. Animator: Walt Feimer (HTSI).
Keywords: Aurora, HDTV, Magnetic Reconnection, Solar Wind, Space Weather, THEMIS; What -- THEMIS
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| THEMIS Launch and Deployment - NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center, Conceptual Image Lab
THEMIS (Time History of Events and Microscale Interactions durind Substorms) answers fundamental outstanding questions regarding the magnetospheric substorm instability, a dominant mechanism of transport and explosive release of solar wind energy within Geospace. THEMIS will elucidate which magnetotail process is responsible for substorm onset at the region where substorm auroras map (~10Re): (i) a local disruption of the plasma sheet current or (ii) that current's interaction with the rapid inf...
Keywords: Aurora, HDTV, Magnetic Reconnection, Solar Wind, THEMIS; What -- THEMIS; Where -- California
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